Center-mold for ice-cream.



WILLIAM WALKER CASSELL, OF VINCENNES, INDIANA.

CENTER-MOLD FOR ICE-CREAM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Api'. 28, 1914.

Application filed May 5, 1909. Serial No. 494,044.

T0 @ZZ whomv 'it muy concern:

Be it known that I, VILLiAM IVALnnii GfissnLL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Vincennes7 in the county of Knox and State ofIndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Center-Molds for Ice-Cream, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in molds and has particularreference to such as are used for imparting fancy shapes or figures toice-creain, and the invention will probably be most used for molding anornamental center of one kind or color of ice-creain for a brick orblock of another kind or color.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, efficient andinexpensive mold for the above purpose made in detachable parts, theprincipal partof which for shaping the sides of the product will be inone piece split longitudinally and made of resilient material, whereby,when liberated in taking the mold apart to remove the product saidresilient portion will spring apart and free itself so as to permit theproduct to be readily removed without injury to same.

Vith the above and other objects in view the invention consists ofcertain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement ofparts, as will be hereinafter fully described and pointed out in theappended claim.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a side elevation of a moldembodying my invention, the same being adapted for molding ice-cream inthe form of a heart or a center of such shape for a brick or block. Fig.2 is an end view of same with the near cap or lid removed, Fig` 3 is aperspective view of the side walls of the mold in its released positionafter the removal of the end caps, the view showing the product and themanner in which it is released by the resiliency of the sides of themold. Fig. l is a view like Fig. 2 of a mold to produce a figure in theform of an egg` in cross section, this view showing a modifiedconstruction for uniting the edges formed by the split in the mold, andFig. 5 is a perspective view of one end of the side walls such as areshown in the modification in Fig. el.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalviews of the drawing. n c

The sides 6 of my mold are made out or resiliency of any suitablematerial, such as heavy tin of good quality, having sufcient resiliencyand being so shaped and strained when in use as to spring apart at itslongitudinal edges when not positively retained. rIhe mold shown inFigs. l, 2 and 3, is adapted to form a core or center for ice-creain inthe shape of a heart in cross section and is made of one piece ofsheet-metal with two longitudinal separable edges, one of which is bentto form a longitudinal flange or integral strip 7 under which theopposite longitudinal edge 8 of the mold is locked, in a manner clearlyshown in Fig. 2, while the mold is in use. This locked condition isretained by sheet-metal caps 9 having flanges 10forming a recess orsocket into which the ends of the mold 6 are inserted. The caps are hereshown as round in outline, which shape is preferable on account of thegreater ease with which the caps may be manufactured, and also becausethe same cap may be used interchangeably with other forms of molds, thatis molds in which to make icecream centers other than heart shape incross section, as for example like that shown in Fig. 4.

In Figs. 4L and 5 the two longitudinal edges of the split mold 6 cometogether without lapping, and instead of being held or locked by anintegral strip 7 they are held by a separate outside strip 14 whichextends longitudinally of the mold and overlaps both edges of the mold,and these parts, thus assembled, are locked by caps 9 having flanges 10,as has been previously described.

The construction, use, and advantages of my invention will be readilyunderstood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings. It will be seen that by means of a moldconstructed in this manner of one piece split longitudinally the moldedobject may be readily removed by simply removing the end caps from theends of the side sections of the mold whereupon the resiliency of saidsides will cause them to spread and draw away from each other and fromthe frozen center.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and wish tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

A mold of the class described comprising a body portion formed ofresilient metal and having disconnected ends whereby the the metal willspring or eX- pand the sides, site ends of the mold and engage and holdthe sides ed or operative position,

binding` strip for holding ends of the body portion gether portion.

Uopes of this patent may be caps arranged on the oppothe ends of saidstri tween the Hunges of the ce Looe-,87e

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set 10 iny hand and seal atVincennes, Indiana, this 24th day of April, A. D. one thousand ninehundred and nine,

WILLIAM WALKER CSSELL.

Witnesses:

MARTIN L. CAssELL, HENRY OsTnNDoRr.

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g the Commissioner of Patents,

